1. Year 6 SATs Meeting

2. Aims To understand the changes to KS2 SATs To become familiar with the new year 6 expectations / tests To understand how school is supporting your child To identify ways you can support your child

3. Why Assess? Knowing how each pupil is performing allows teachers to help individuals improve. Assessment plays a key role in helping schools to improve outcomes. This in turn promotes improvement at class level, then at school level.

4. Changes In 2014/15 a new national curriculum framework was introduced. In 2015/16 children in all years at Key Stage 1 and 2 are expected to now study the new national curriculum. KS1 (Year 2) and KS2 SATs (Year 6) will reflect the new curriculum for the first time this year. If your child is in Year 6 this year, they will be the first pupils to receive the new tests and the first to receive the new style of reporting results. ‘Old’ national curriculum levels (e.g. Level 3, 4, 5) have now been abolished. From 2016, test scores will be reported as ‘scaled scores’. This means it is very difficult to compare the assessment of a previous year with the current year.

5. Scaled Scores (not levels) It is planned that 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’. Each pupil’s raw test score will therefore be converted into a score on the scale, either at, above or below 100. A child who achieves the ‘national standard’ (a score of 100) will be judged to have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests. In July 2016 for the first publication of test results, each pupil will receive: A raw score (number of raw marks awarded). A scaled score in each tested subject. Confirmation of whether or not they attained the national standard. These will be shared with you in your child’s report. You will be given an indication of if your child is ‘on –track’ to meet the standard at TLC meetings.

6. Scaled Scores (not levels) On publication of the test results in July 2016: A child awarded a scaled score of 100 is judged to have met the ‘national standard’ in the area judged by the test. A child awarded a scaled score of more than 100 is judged to have exceeded the national standard and demonstrated a higher than expected knowledge of the curriculum for their age. A child awarded a scaled score of less than 100 is judged to have not yet met the national standard and performed below expectation for their age. These will be shared with you in your child’s report. You will be given an indication of if your child is ‘on –track’ to meet the standard at TLC meetings.

7. Content / expectations The new curriculum is more rigorous and sets high expectations which all schools have had to work hard to meet since the beginning of last year. All year groups now have a more challenging curriculum with a lot of content moved down from KS3. The children are now expected to achieve all the objectives ‘I can…statements’ for their year not just the majority.

8. SATs week 9 th -12 th May 2016 SATs take place nationally in the week commencing 9th May 2016. Statutory tests will be administered in the following subjects: o Reading (60 minutes) o Spelling (approximately 15 minutes) o Punctuation, Vocabulary and Grammar (45 minutes) o Mathematics - Paper 1: Arithmetic (30 minutes) - Paper 2: Reasoning (40 minutes) - Paper 3: Reasoning (40 minutes) All tests are externally marked. Writing will be ‘Teacher Assessed’ internally, as in recent years.

9. Reading Monday 9 th May Similar to previous years The Reading Test consists of a single test paper with three unrelated reading texts. Children are given 60 minutes in total, which includes reading the texts and answering the questions. A total of 50 marks are available. Questions are designed to assess the comprehension and understanding of a child’s reading. Some questions are multiple choice or selected response, others require short answers and some require an extended response or explanation.

10. Spelling, punctuation and grammar Tuesday 10 th May A Spelling test is administered containing 20 words, lasting approximately 15 minutes. A separate test is given on Punctuation, Vocabulary and Grammar Vocabulary heavy This test lasts for 45 minutes and requires short answer questions, including some multiple choice. Marks for these two tests are added together to give a total for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.

11. Maths Wednesday 11 th and Thursday 12 th May The Maths tests have the biggest change this year. Children will sit three tests: Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3. Paper 1 is for ‘Arithmetic’ lasting for 30 minutes, covering calculation methods for all operations, including use of fractions, percentages and decimals. Questions gradually increase in difficulty. Not all children will be expected to access some of the more difficult questions later in the paper. Papers 2 and 3 cover ‘Problem Solving and Reasoning’, each lasting for 40 minutes. Pupils will still require calculation skills but will need to answer questions in context and decide what is required to find a solution.

12. Writing on-going Teacher assessed not tested Range of writing / range of genre Transcription / content / structure Independent

13. School support High quality teaching – carefully planned Assessment of each child’s strength / areas to develop Teacher and Teaching assistant support SATs club Practice the key skills e.g mock tests / speed work Small group work

14. Home support Support and reassure your child that there is nothing to worry about and they should always just try their best. Praise and encourage! Ensure your child has the best possible attendance at school. Support your child with any homework tasks. Reading, spelling and arithmetic (e.g. times tables) are always good to practise. Talk to your child about what they have learnt at school and what book(s) they are reading (the character, the plot, their opinion). Lots of supportive / educational/ free on-line resources Make sure your child has a good sleep and healthy breakfast every morning! Talk to us!

15. Home support Reading Listening to your child read can take many forms. First and foremost, focus developing an enjoyment and love of reading. Enjoy stories together – reading stories to your child at KS1 and KS2 is equally as important as listening to your child read. Read a little at a time but often, rather than rarely but for long periods of time! Talk about the story before, during and afterwards – discuss the plot, the characters, their feelings and actions, how it makes you feel, predict what will happen and encourage your child to have their own opinions. Look up definitions of words together – you could use a dictionary, the internet or an app on a phone or tablet. All reading is valuable – it doesn’t have to be just stories. Reading can involve anything from fiction and non-fiction, poetry, newspapers, magazines, football programmes, TV guides. Visit the local library - it’s free!

16. Home support Writing / Grammar/Spelling Practise and learn weekly spelling lists – make it fun! Encourage opportunities for writing such as letters to family or friends, shopping lists, notes or reminders, stories or poems. Write together – be a good role model for writing. Encourage use of a dictionary to check spelling and a thesaurus to find synonyms and expand vocabulary Allow your child to use a computer for word processing, which will allow for editing and correcting of errors without lots of crossing out. Remember that good readers become good writers! Identify good writing features when reading (e.g. vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation). Share the grammatical vocabulary – test each other!

17. Home support Maths Play times tables games Play mental maths games including counting in different amounts, forwards and backwards Encourage opportunities for telling the time Encourage opportunities for counting coins and money; finding amounts or calculating change when shopping Look for numbers on street signs, car registrations and anywhere else! Look for examples of 2D and 3D shapes around the home Identify, weigh or measure quantities and amounts in the kitchen or in recipes Play games involving numbers or logic, such as dominoes, card games, darts, draughts or chess

18. Questions

19. Time to look at the papers

20. Thank you! Remember…….